Hey Ben, I've run into this issue several times over the past year -- seems the problem is BIOS manufacturers rushing the mainboards to market, claiming they can boot from USB ... but it really can't. The fix so far has been to update the BIOS software to the newest version. Hope that helps!
Theresa On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 17:29 +0000, Ben Raber wrote: > I'm having a ton of Trouble installing Linux on my new Laptop this has > never happened to me before. for some reason, there's a usb option but > it only works if a disk is in the drive. :( see you guys next week > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of > Don Ellis [[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 4:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [cwelug] Meeting on Sunday? > > > > The question came up Thursday night. Because of holiday weekend, will > be postponed til next week. > > > On Friday, August 31, 2012, Mike B. wrote: > May as well ask now before the deluge. > > > -- > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > To post: [email protected] > To subscribe: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug > -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
